[WikiEN-l] Oops (or, be careful when quoting Wikipedia in your newspaper, part 2)

[Earle Martin]

London has a free daily newspaper called [[thelondonpaper]]. Every
day, on the puzzles page, there's a little factoid at the top of the
page. Today it said:

    [in Big Type:] 670.6
    The number of miles per hour at which light travels.
    source: en.wikipedia.org

Oh dear. I think the word "million" went missing somewhere. From
[[speed of light]]:

    "Converted to imperial units, the speed of light is
approximately... 670,616,629.384 miles per hour, or almost one foot
per nanosecond."

I just hope that people realise the error was on their part, not ours.
(Probably, considering that they also had a story today titled "Jolie
Adopts Fourth Child", which began "Angelina Jolie today adopted a
third child...")


-- 
Earle Martin
            http://downlode.org/
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